KIEV, Jan. 29 – Opposition lawmakers will go ahead and hold a meeting in Parliament on Thursday in defiance of Parliamentary Speaker Volodymyr Rybak’s refusal to call the emergency session this week the lawmakers had demanded.

KIEV, Jan. 30 — Ukraine’s top energy and coal industry ministry officials will be on 24-hour duty for the next two weeks as a spell of extremely cold weather continues to drain the country’s energy resources.

KIEV, Jan. 30 — Ukraine’s opposition parties across the board on Monday rejected a proposal from President Viktor Yanukovych to join a body that charged with drafting - and approving - the country’s next constitution.

KIEV, Jan. 30 – Two launches of the Ukrainian-Russian Dnepr rocket from the Yasny launch base (Orenburg region, Russia) are scheduled for 2012, Yuriy Alekseyev, head of the State Space Agency of Ukraine told journalists on Friday.

KIEV, Jan. 30 - Deputy Social Policy Minister Serhiy Tyhypko has reiterated that national oil and gas company Naftogaz Ukrayiny’s plans not to import more than 27 billion cubic meters (bcm) of Russian gas.